Designing a Management Model for Employee Empowerment with Information Literacy Focus to Improve Their Training

According to the research on information empowerment and information literacy, the purpose of this study was to present an information literacy empowerment model to train the staff of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Statistical population in the qualitative part of this applied, qualitative-quantitative exploratory and descriptive-correlational study was conducted by academic experts in educational management, banking sciences and executive experts including senior and middle managers of the central bank. , And 21 individuals were selected by purposive sampling method and adequacy. In this case, we have the following:The statistical population of all the central bank employees in the second group was selected using random cluster sampling method. In the qualitative part of the library method, semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative part of the researcher-made empowerment questionnaire with 0.801 validity and 0.736 reliability standard information literacy questionnaire [10] with 0.889 validity and 0.838 reliability respectively were used for data collection. In this case, we have the following For the analysis of the qualitative data, content analysis was used. In the quantitative section, considering the research questions, descriptive statistical methods along with inferential statistical methods (including structural equation modeling (SEM) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA)) using the SPSS and LISREL and MAXQDA12 softwares were applied. Results indicated that empowerment components included meaningfulness, competence, autonomy, and impact. Meanwhile, the finding showed that empowerment of employees positively affects their information literacy.